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Packet E: Bonus 12

The need to import this resource motivated an unsuccessful Nazi German research program into producing it with specially bred dandelions. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this resource. E. D. Morel exposed a system for extracting this resource from Landolphia owariensis that included use of the chicotte (“shee-KUT”) hippopotamus hide whip on the local population.
ANSWER: natural rubber
[10h] The rubber supplies in this region, at the time part of Bolivia, led to Brazilian settlers declaring it an “independent state” in 1899. After a war named for this region, Brazil annexed it in the 1903 Treaty of Petrópolis.
ANSWER: Acre (“AH-kree”)
[10e] In 1926, Firestone received a 99-year lease in this country to create what is today the world’s largest rubber plantation. The US aided in negotiations due to this country’s historic founding by American ex-slaves.
ANSWER: Liberia [or Republic of Liberia]
<Chicago A, World History> | Packet E - Chicago A, Toronto B, Brandeis B, JHU A

HeardPPBE %M %H %
7519.7399%71%28%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Brandeis ASouthern Connecticut State10101030MHE
Dartmouth ADartmouth B1001020ME
Harvard ABrown10101030MHE
Harvard BBowdoin B0101020HE
YaleBowdoin A001010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
California (North)Main Site✓320.00100%100%0%
California (South)Main Site✓422.50100%50%75%
CanadaMain Site✓120.00100%100%0%
FloridaMain Site✓316.67100%33%33%
Great LakesMain Site✓520.00100%80%20%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓918.89100%67%22%
MidwestMain Site✓825.00100%100%50%
NortheastMain Site✓522.00100%60%60%
OverflowMain Site✓417.50100%75%0%
South CentralMain Site✓215.00100%50%0%
SoutheastMain Site✓714.29100%43%0%
UKMain Site✓1219.1792%67%33%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓822.50100%100%25%
Upstate NYMain Site✓417.50100%50%25%